hello.

Art at kitsche, music at untidytowns, everything else here.

Here's a bit about myself: I'm Cindy. I'm a 20 year old in the throes of New York college life, which is always keeping me busy. I love Harry Potter, Miyazaki films, museums, songs, fashion journals/notebooks/sketchbooks, drawing, my camera, and aesthetically pleasing things. I'm an Aquarius, Dragon, Otter, Type 4, and INFP. I tend to post entries with photos of occurrences in my life, trains of thought, and the occasional piece of art. Most of my journal is public, so no worries for what you see is what you get.

Okay, your turn. Leave me your name, add me, introduce yourself, et cetera et cetera!

In the event where LJ reaches its apocalypse, you can find me at ex.dreamwidth.org. But for now, I'm still here at good ol' bisou and we can build cute little dreamwidth bomb shelters where we've got each other friended Circled! You know, in case of LJ-evacuation. :)

In other news, I am a Chinese Foreign policy paper, a Europe comp. lit exam, and a Macroeconomics exam away from freedom. Halfway done with the undergrad years? I guess the days are long and the years are truly short. Such a far cry from high school where both days and years were dreadfully long.

Sparkling Green Tea Ginger Ale --- it was actually ... pretty good?! But then again, you're talking to somebody who will go nuts over anything in the green tea family.

bits and pieces of my life:
× I got a ticket to the Dark Was the Night concert, because I worked at the production company. Basically, I saw Feist, Bon Iver, the National, David Byrne, David Sitek (TV on the Radio), the Dirty Projectors, My Brightest Diamond, and Sharon Jones all in one musically amazing night. Win, win, win. Sharon Jones definitely stole the show, for sure. At the end of the show, all the performers got on stage to do an a cappella version of "This Land is Your Land", but then Sharon walked on the stage to interrupt them and show them "how it's really done." Also noteworthy was Feist and Justin Vernon's duet on "Train Song" (Ben Gibbard was absent but the duet still rocked!). I need to go to more shows this summer; I hardly went to any this year.

× A grad student at my university had a case of swine flu, and of course, everybody went nuts.

× I am staying in New York for the summer, which is already wonderful in itself, but I'd like to do some traveling because I'm always itching to go places. If you want to help a girl out, give me recommendations of a.) places that you've visited and loved and/or b.) places that you'd love to visit. Any continent (excl. Antarctica) -- go for it. I need to formalize some kind of places-I-want-to-visit-before-I-die list anyhow. And who's going to be in NY at some point in the summer?

× I have not made a bio post on this journal since 2006, and because much has transpired (offline, online) since then, expect something soon.

× This may change, but the fall 2009 schedule:

M/W
10:35-11:00 AM: Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Korea
6:10-7:25 PM: Introduction to Econometrics

T/R
9:00-10:25 AM: Introduction to Mathematical Programming (Deterministic Models)
10:35-11:50 AM: Introduction to Accounting and Finance
1:10-2:25 PM: Introduction to Database Systems

That's my junior year schedule, which means that I should be "halfway" done with college, but all of my classes are "Introduction" classes, huh what.

× How many of you are actually going to be using your Dreamwidth accounts? No, I don't have one, but if a whole lot of you are migrating and fleeing the Livejournal coop, I'll consider getting a code.

× I AM IN THE MIDDLE OF READING WEEK AND BLAST, IT SUCKS SO MUCH AND I AM BEING EATEN ALIVE BY ACADEMIA. The weather is always crappy and I am always crappy and life is always crappy and everything else is always crappy during this week. Go consistency!

I love her outfit, especially the flowers in her hair!

Yeah, these photos are two months overdue. Back in Feburary, the Met had an exhibit called "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy", but like most special art exhibits, there was no photography allowed. I wish I had photos though, because there was some beautiful stuff!

Anyway, I don't think I've ever posted photos of the Met museum before (I've covered MoMA at least twice). I thought I'd share with you some works that I found lovely/inspiring in one way or another. I feel really lucky to be only a subway ride away from all these wonderful works of art. This reminds me, I need to go again before school ends this year.

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london: day vi (03/20)

agenda:
¶ Tate Modern
¶ Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
¶ Millennium Bridge
¶ Borough Market
¶ London Bridge
¶ Shopping!
¶ Hogwarts Express at Platform 9¾
¶ Carnaby Street (dinner at Cha Cha Moon)
¶ Chinatown
¶ Covent Garden


See you at Hogwarts! :)



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That day, I went to the Tate Modern, which I liked better than the Britain. They had this really cool collection display called "Poetry and Dream" which I loved. They had de Chirico (one of my favorites), Magritte, Picasso, and a bunch of really beautiful stuff. It was a nice day, so I spent some time reading on the lawn outside the museum and walking around the Globe and the Millennium Bridge. I got to London Bridge, where they had Borough Market. I ate fish and chips for the first time this trip. :)

After lunch, I went shopping, but by this time, it was already late afternoon and I was falling asleep in the middle of Primark. Dinner was at Cha Cha Moon (same owners as Wagamama) on Carnaby Street. Since it was the last day, we had made plans to go to a bar or club, but after a long time walking around Covent Garden, we finally found a place that was more for the benefit of sitting down than anything else. By the time we got back, I had to do some major packing before the cab picked me up at 3am (I had a ridiculously early flight). Let's just say that I slept on the floor of the Heathrow check-in desk.

So ends my London updates! I decided to buy a Flickr pro account, though I still consider myself quite noob-ish at Flickr. Add me so I don't look like a loser there because I want to see all your pretty photos. :D